Decreasing pool capacity

The Storage Administrator (Provisioning) role is required to perform this task.

1. Perform one of the following to display the Pools window.

For Command Suite:

• On the Resource tab, expand the Storage Systems tree. Right-click DP Pools of the target storage system, then select System GUI. On the Pools tab, select Shrink Pool.

For Storage Navigator:

• In the Storage Systems tree on the left pane of the main window, select Pools.

2. Select the pool that contains the pool-VOLs to be deleted.

3. From the Pool volumes, select the pool-VOL to be deleted.

You cannot delete pool-VOLs unless Shrinkable is applied.

4. Perform one of the following to display the Shrink Pool window.

• Click Shrink Pool.

• Click Actions > Pool > Shrink Pool to open the window.

The details of Before Shrinking and After Shrinking, including the pool capacity, the used pool capacity, and the free pool capacity, appear in Prediction Result of Shrinking.

5. In the Confirm window, confirm the settings, in Task Name type a unique name for this task or accept the default, then click Apply.

If Go to tasks window for status is checked, the Tasks window opens.